Biography

American noted family, the eleventh child of Ethel and Robert Kennedy, born six months after the assassination of her father.

Rory became a producer and documentary director. Her life has been marked by the tragedies of her dramatic family. She was the one who cradled her dying brother, Michael, after a skiing accident on New Year's Eve 1997 in Aspen, Colorado. Her Hyannis Port wedding to Mark Bailey, a writer and book and film editor, was cancelled when her cousin, John F. Kennedy Jr. went down in a plane along with his wife Carolyn and her sister on 7/16/1999 off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The wedding took place two-and-a-half weeks later, on 8/02/1999, 07:00 PM in Ekali, Greece, an upscale suburb of Athens. Kennedy married Mark Bailey at the family compound of ship owner Vardis Vardinoyiannis, a friend of the family. The newlywed couple also sailed on his yacht for their honeymoon.

By 2000, Rory was making documentary films on AIDS, addiction and rural poverty.